Research hosted and curated by AfricArxiv allows for free and quick dissemination and global engagement.
All published articles and data items will receive an open license allowing reuse (e.g. CC BY 4.0 license for manuscripts) and a DOI (digital object identifier) and be indexed in scholarly databases.
Please note: AfricArXiv is not a journal and does not evaluate the scientific quality of a manuscript in all details. Once a manuscript passes moderation and is published, it persists in the system indefinitely. We reserve the right to withdraw manuscripts after publication if fraud or plagiarism is identified.
Check for journal compliance: Use the SHERPA/RoMEO service to check journal preprint policies for further details on self-archiving options for the journal in which you plan to publish your article.
Who should submit
We encourage submissions from:
African researchers
non-African researchers
based on the African continent
based at a host institute outside of Africa
reporting on research conducted on African territory; preferably with African co-authors listed
reporting on research relevant to African affairs
Non-academic institutions
governmental institutions
non-governmental institutions
private entities with scholarly affiliation and/or focus and methodology
community-based organisations who wish to share their knowledge and protect it from misappropriation
What to submit
We accept the following types and formats:
text files
data
other file types
Research article manuscripts
Review papers
Project proposals
Case studies
‘negative’ results and ‘null’ results (i.e. results that do not support a hypothesis)
Data and Methods Descriptions
Technical notes
Review reports
Policy papers
Dataset description papers
Annual reports
Translations of the above
Other types will be considered upon submission.
table
datasets
code
…
presentations
audio/video recordings
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To submit your research, choose a suitable repository from our affiliate repositories listed here below:
manuscripts theses book chapters peer review reports
presentations
tabular data
images
audio/video files
posters
code
Signup and login with your ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier known as ORCID iD which allows you to connect and share your professional information (affiliation, grants, publications, peer review, etc.) with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your scholarly contributions. Our partner repositories OSF, Zenodo, Figshare, Qeios, and ScienceOpen have ORCID integrated into their system and allow you to seamlessly register, login, and update your works data to your ORCID record.
Should you have any concerns or issues submitting directly to our repository partners, you can share your work directly with our moderation team via this form, or go to africarxiv.pubpub.org/submission-form.
If you need further clarification or help to submit your work, please email [email protected]; we will gladly assist you.
Published research articles
If you want to share a manuscript that was already published as a journal article, go to howcanishareit.com and paste the article DOI in the search mask; check if ‘as preprint’ comes up among the accepted publishing formats.
Most academic journals do accept preprint archiving, some don’t. To find out more check the Sherpa/RoMEO database.
If you need help with formatting, you can use the following manuscript template put together by the AfricArXiv submission moderation team >> Manuscript-template_AfricArXivDownload
Once the manuscript is accepted by a peer-reviewed journal you can update the preprint to the postprint or accepted author manuscript and change this text to “This is a postprint that has been peer-reviewed and accepted at journal XXX.”
Other file types
To share datasets, audio/visual files, and other research output, you can either use our submission portal or select a suitable affiliate repository from the list below. We will assist you to add and link your manuscripts to supplementary files in any format.
Licensing
Please ensure to respect the applicable copyright and license conditions for the files you upload. For scholarly manuscripts, the most widely used license is CC-BY 4.0.
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